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RESULTS AND FOLLOW-UP OF THE THIRD CONFERENCE OF THE
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY UNION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Resolution adopted without a vote by the Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at its 166th session (Amman, 6 May 2000)
The Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union,
Having been informed of the proceedings of the Third Conference
of the Inter-Parliamentary Union on Security and Cooperation in
the Mediterranean (CSCM), held in Marseilles from 30 March to
3 April 2000 at the invitation of the French Parliament,
Taking note that the Third CSCM confirmed the need to pursue,
within the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the CSCM process launched
ten years ago, and noting the latter's complementarity
and convergence with the Euro-Med Process,
Having before it the Final Document which the participants adopted by consensus,
- Deeply thanks the French Parliament and the authorities
of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region for
the warm welcome extended to the Conference participants in Marseilles
and for the excellent working conditions provided at the Hôtel
de Région, and notes that under the courteous
and dynamic leadership of the Executive President of the French
Group the participants considered the various aspects of the three
CSCM "baskets", building on the work done by the three
Thematic Preparatory Meetings held in Monte Carlo (Monaco) in
July 1997, Evora (Portugal) in June 1998 and Ljubljana (Slovenia)
in March 2000, on the biannual consultations of the parties held
in conjunction with statutory Inter-Parliamentary Conferences
and on other current Mediterranean initiatives;
- Welcomes the constructive spirit in which the proceedings
took place and the meaningful debates;
- Takes note of the Final Document of the Third CSCM,
adopted by consensus at the end of the proceedings, and notes
with interest the wealth of considerations and recommendations
it contains;
- Urges the delegations of the States concerned to bring
the Final Document of the Third CSCM to the attention of:
(i) their parliaments for debate and endorsement with a view to
the adoption of the specific follow-up measures proposed in the
various sections of the text;
(ii) their governments;
(iii) the European Union and European Parliament;
- Requests more particularly the Parliament of Egypt
to ensure that the Final Document of Marseilles is brought, in
all appropriate languages, to the attention of the Conference
of Presidents of the Parliaments of the Euro-Mediterranean Region
at their next Conference, which will take place in Alexandria
on 23 and 24 May 2000;
- Asks the Parliaments of the States concerned to request
official circulation of the Marseilles Final Document and information
on the CSCM process at the 55th session of the United Nations
General Assembly under the agenda item on Security and Cooperation
in the Mediterranean;
- Informs the parties to the CSCM process of its intention
to convene in the summer of 2000, in Valletta (Malta), an ad hoc
committee composed of the Members of the CSCM Coordinating Committee
and a representative of the Mediterranean women parliamentarians
task force set up at the Amman Meetings, for the purposes of considering
the practical arrangements for pursuing the CSCM process within
the Inter-Parliamentary Union and, the creation in the long run,
of a Parliamentary Assembly of Mediterranean States.
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